Its always about the money. While the bans are supposedly about health, it looks like restaurants will be making big money from it. I wonder how much money the restaurant association donated to Bloomberg's campaign. LOL

Say goodbye to that 2-liter bottle of Coke with your pizza delivery, pitchers of soft drinks at your kid’s birthday party .... They’d violate Mayor Bloomberg’s new rules, which prohibit eateries from serving or selling sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces.

Typically, a pizzeria charges $3 for a 2-liter bottle of Coke. But under the ban, customers would have to buy six 12-ounce cans at a total cost of $7.50 to get an equivalent amount of soda.

Domino’s on First Avenue and 74th Street on the Upper East Side is doing away with its most popular drink sizes: the 20-ounce and 2-liter bottles. “We’re getting in 16-ounce bottles — and that’s all we’re going to sell,” a worker said. He said the smaller bottles will generate more revenue for the restaurant but cost consumers more. It will also trash more plastic into the environment.

Families will get pinched at kid-friendly party places, which will have to chuck their plastic pitchers because most hold 60 ounces — even though such containers are clearly intended for more than one person. Changes will be made at the Frames bowling alley in Times Square, where 26-ounce pitchers are served at kids’ parties, said manager Ayman Kamel.

And if you’re looking for a night of bottle service at a Manhattan hot spot, be warned: Spending $300 on a bottle of vodka no longer entitles you to a full complement of mixers.

bamapilot wrote:Its always about the money. While the bans are supposedly about health, it looks like restaurants will be making big money from it. I wonder how much money the restaurant association donated to Bloomberg's campaign. LOL

...Domino’s on First Avenue and 74th Street on the Upper East Side is doing away with its most popular drink sizes: the 20-ounce and 2-liter bottles. “We’re getting in 16-ounce bottles — and that’s all we’re going to sell,” a worker said. He said the smaller bottles will generate more revenue for the restaurant but cost consumers more. It will also trash more plastic into the environment.

It's amazingly stupid. Doesn't anyone do any thinking any more? Common sense has become uncommon.

When 20 oz. soft drinks are outlawed only outlaws will have 20 oz. soft drinks.

Oh well, it's a good thing we don't have soda pop in the South. But they better not come after our soft drinks.

bamapilot wrote:Its always about the money. While the bans are supposedly about health, it looks like restaurants will be making big money from it. I wonder how much money the restaurant association donated to Bloomberg's campaign. LOL

...Domino’s on First Avenue and 74th Street on the Upper East Side is doing away with its most popular drink sizes: the 20-ounce and 2-liter bottles. “We’re getting in 16-ounce bottles — and that’s all we’re going to sell,” a worker said. He said the smaller bottles will generate more revenue for the restaurant but cost consumers more. It will also trash more plastic into the environment.

It's amazingly stupid. Doesn't anyone do any thinking any more? Common sense has become uncommon.

When 20 oz. soft drinks are outlawed only outlaws will have 20 oz. soft drinks.

Oh well, it's a good thing we don't have soda pop in the South. But they better not come after our soft drinks.

Everybody recognizes the govt's right to prohibit certain practices by the purveyors of food and drink. We don't let them slip opium, cocaine, etc., to us in order to hook us and keep us coming back for more.

But this is exactly what the food industry tries to do. They spend billions on research to find the precise combinations of chemicals that undermine the brain's natural ability to tell us when we've eaten enough.

“How many drinkers do I have? And how many drinks do they drink? If you lost one of those heavy users, if somebody just decided to stop drinking Coke, how many drinkers would you have to get, at low velocity, to make up for that heavy user? The answer is a lot. It’s more efficient to get my existing users to drink more.”

Big Business of any kind is corrupt by nature and necessity, and the food industry is one of the worst. We need more local and state govts taking them on like Mayor Bloomberg. The industry already recognizes that they are today's version of Big Tobacco advertising to kids, and that there is a high risk that at some point the citizenry and their representatives will become fed up and sue for the damage that has been deliberately perpetrated on the nation's health. If a few states and big cities will rattle their sabers, the food industry will clean itself up a little, if they think it will avoid huge lawsuits or govt regulation.

Oversize sugary drinks don't harm only the people who drink them. The taxpayers wind up footing the bill for healthcare and lost productivity of those who succumb to the food industry's manipulation. We have the right to intervene, and try to statistically encourage healthier habits. If you want your big drinks, you can still get them in NYC over at 7-11 or the gas station store. Drink yourself to an early grave if that's your choice.